Sentence Examples with the word shortsighted

You.re right, Kris, I can.t understand how you could turn your back on the person who needed you most and justify it with your shortsighted arrogance.

Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind.

The sobs rose higher and higher in her throat as she more and more clearly distinguished his form and her shortsighted eyes tried to make out his features, and then she saw his face and met his gaze.

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Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them.

They might have long been a bulwark between Rome and the wild hordes of the desert but for the shortsighted cupidity of Trajan, who reduced Petra and broke up the Nabataean nationality (105 A.D.).

She did not know how she found the courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near to her shortsighted eyes.

But this shortsighted policy is criticized by Turkish historians, who censure Murad III.

Weak and shortsighted as a statesman, as a man and prelate Dalberg was amiable, conscientious and large-hearted.

Since this shortsighted observer can view the object with the naked eye with no inconvenience to himself at 4 in.

He was already enjoying that happiness when that little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments had followed, and only the heavens promised peace.